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Commentary

7¹ DAMSGAARD rushed a simple chance. 8¹ The Sunderland 'keeper saved a neatly crafted strike from DAMSGAARD. 10¹ MARTINELLI worked the ball to VLAHOVIC, KVARATSKHELIA gathered his cross and kicked the ball within easy reach of the Southampton 'keeper. 18¹ A cross from DAMSGAARD left LEMINA in lots of space but he scuffed his shot. 22¹ KVARATSKHELIA was put clear by MARTINELLI and he dummied the 'keeper but thrust his shot over the bar. 31¹ GOAL!! A mix up between BOSCAGLI and the Southampton 'keeper allowed VALVERDE to drill the ball into the empty net. (1-0 Sunderland) 3² GOAL!! An imaginative HERNÁNDEZ played a wonderful ball down the right to VLAHOVIC who seemingly in an offside position went on to easily score. (2-0 Sunderland) 9² KVARATSKHELIA's header was well saved by SELS. 10² A weak shot from MILNER bounced agonisingly wide. 11² VLAHOVIC blasted a left foot shot just beyond the far post from twenty yards out. 19² The bemused 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from LEMINA fell just wide. 20² DOHERTY stroked a simple chance past the near post. 23² A right foot effort from LEMINA was pushed round the post by SIMÓN. 38² GOAL!! After some useful play on the right BOSCAGLI came inside and whacked the ball into the top corner. (2-1 Sunderland) 41² GOAL!! A neat one-two left MILNER clear and he made no mistake by floating the ball past the oncoming Sunderland 'keeper. (2-2) 42² A accurate pass found VLAHOVIC and his right foot shot went narrowly over. 9ª¹ A thirty yard shot from WEGHORST caused the 'keeper no problem. 10ª¹ VLAHOVIC headed the ball wide from the edge of the box. 0ª² The 'keeper did well to hold onto a powerful strike from BEDNAREK. 3ª² WEGHORST's shot beat SIMÓN but rebounded off the Sunderland woodwork. 6ª² A drive from BOATENG seemed a certain goal but the Sunderland 'keeper managed to punch the ball clear. 14ª² VLAHOVIC played the ball to SANÉ who flicked it wide.

Sunderland   League position: 4 Home league form: XXWL Overall league form: LXWWXWWW Formation: 4-2-3-1

Line-ups Unai SIMÓN 7½ 1 6  Matz SELS Benjamin PAVARD 7½ 2 7  Matt DOHERTY Theo HERNÁNDEZ 8  3 7  Olivier BOSCAGLI Federico VALVERDE 6  4 7½ ORIOL ROMEU Vidal José GIMÉNEZ 6½ 5 7  Jan BEDNAREK Manuel AKANJI 7  6 6½ Jakub KIWIOR Leroy SANÉ 7½ 7 6½ Mario LEMINA (c)BRUNO GUIMARÃES Rodriguez 7  8 6½ Mikkel DAMSGAARD (p)Dusan VLAHOVIC 6½ 9 8  Wout WEGHORST(p) (f)Gabriel MARTINELLI 6  10 6½ James MILNER(c,f) Khvicha KVARATSKHELIA 6  11 6  Ché ADAMS Luke Murray Manager Kyle WALKER    12    Samuel EDOZIE Bart VERBRUGGEN    13    JOSÉ Pedro SÁ Enzo FERNÁNDEZ 6  14    Takehiro TOMIYASU James MADDISON    15 6  Jérôme BOATENG Antoine GRIEZMANN 6  16 6  Mohammed SALISU

Southampton   League position: 14 Away league form: XXLX Overall league form: WXWXWLXL Formation: 4-3-3

Southampton go through to the next round, 5-3 on penalties

Statistics

Sunderland 2 Southampton 2 (Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 89,987, Stadium: Wembley, Referee: Nigel Miller 8, TV: live) Valverde 31¹, Vlahovic 3² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Boscagli 38², Milner 41² MartinellióGriezmann 25², ValverdeóFernández 25² DamsgaardóSalisu 41², DohertyóBoateng 42²         5 6 24 11 12 5 4 8 8 7 12 15 2 6 48% 52% ¶ Man of the match: Theo Hernández ¶